WD Red is the only hard drive designed for NAS systems that have 1-5 drive bays. Available in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 3 TB, WD Red is designed specifically for home and small office NAS systems. The drives are extensively tested for compatibility and reliability in the demanding operating environment of a 24x7 NAS system. WD's exclusive NASware™ firmware technology enables seamless integration and balanced performance. Innovative technology reduces power comsumption and lowers the operating temperature, and with a 35% improvement in MTBF over desktop drives, WD Red is a more reliable and robust NAS hard drive solution.

Designed specifcally for home and small office NAS systems - WD Red is the only hard drive for 1-5 bay systems

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Good sound hard drive

Reviewed by
Bergamot Eng.
on 23/09/2013

Quiet drive.Smooth installation.No worries

Very satisfactory mid-range disk

Reviewed by
Martin Baxter
on 21/07/2013

This disk is part of Western Digital's new "Red Caviar" range, which sits between "Green" (basic) and "Black" (higher-spec). The manufacturers suggest that it is well-suited to NAS (network attached storage) use.

I bought two of these to put into my Synology DS209+II (two-bay NAS with RAID1) so to increase its capacity. Installation was fine and the existing data copied across quite quickly (1TB in 3 hours).

Everything is looking good - the NAS now has twice its previous capacity and all looks good.

One caution: due to HDD quoting conventions and other factors, you can only expect to get about 1.8TB of usable space from disk drives described as "2TB".

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